On this Wired article there's a quick tutorial on how to convert DVDs into iPod compatible MP4 files, by using DVDFab Decrypter, VOBMerge, and 3GP Converter. Of particular interest is the 3GP Converter. I think I have read about this on the MP4 mailing list.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 5:26 PM
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According to this article, TV phone sales are going to skyrocket in the next few years. Good news for us I guess. See Video/Imaging DesignLine | Study: TV phone sales to hit $30 billion by 2010.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 2:53 PM
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According to the latest number by iSuppli, even though the global shipments of cell phones last year surpassed 800 Million units, the top three vendors took away more than 60% of the total market (Nokia 32.6%, Motorola 18%, and Sumsung 12.7%). The total accessible market for us small fish is likely to be in the range of 10%. Which is still a lot, of course, but not nearly as impressive. See Mobile phone sales pass 800 million at CNet.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 2:59 PM
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The reference software for H.264/AVC can be downloaded here.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 6:53 PM
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John found a news release at Yahoo that talked about the high speed serial interface, CSI-2 and D-PHY, used by MIPI. See MIPI Alliance Releases Two Standards To Ease Camera Phone Development: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 12:43 PM
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Found a few DVB product announcements over at Video/Imaging DesignLine.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 11:19 AM
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See Video/Imaging DesignLine | Micron 2 MP image sensor first to offer MIPI interface. We've heard about MIPI for a while, but this is the first time I saw any product employing this kind of interface.
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 11:16 AM
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According to HD DVD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats will be backwards compatible with DVDs and both employ the same video compression techniques: MPEG-2, Video Codec 1 (VC1, based on the Windows Media 9 format) and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC."
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 3:08 PM
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According to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Apple added H.264 video playback to their 5th Generation iPod on October 12, 2005. The new product will use this format, as well as MPEG-4 Part 2, for video playback. The video-enabled iPod will use the H.264 Baseline Profile with support of bit rates up to 768 kbit/s, image resolutions up to 320 x 240, and frame rates up to 30 frames per second."
posted by Ching-Han Tsai @ 3:04 PM
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The GPAC Project on Advanced Content is an opensource project to provide a better alternative to the MPEG-4 Systems reference software. It supports many recent multimedia standards (such as 3GP, VRML...). May become useful to us in the future.
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